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The Essay: Larking About in the Fields of Cornwall

Series 1, episode 0

Angeline Morrison discusses the song The Lark in the Morning, an English folk song, in the village of St Mawgan in Cornwall. She shares the story of how - with the help of Merv Davey - she has discovered a different version which was collected at the Falcon Inn in the 1890s. She shares the story of the song and brings it back to the place it was found

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Angeline Morrison